Are you sure the hyperwall used a stock Visualizer?
On May 18, 2012, at 4:03 AM, Achim Breidenbach <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Mario, > > as Patrick already mentioned the power of the GPU is what matters. The > problem having two graphic cards in one machine to drive three screens is, > that the two graphics cards has to share textures memory and therefor big > junks of memory have to be copied from one graphic card to the other via the > internal bus. This may cause trouble depending on your composition. Thats > where "Quartz Composer Visualizer" comes in. This application is able to > playback your composition on multiple graphics cards (even on different > machines) simultaneously. It creates multiple instances of your composition > and keep them in sync. I think you have to take care that the composition is > running deterministic. This said you can use three small machines with > powerful graphic cards to run your composition as vs. using one big machine > with two graphic cards. > > I didn't tried this for myself yet, but Apple proofed for themselves with the > AppStore Hyperwall that this works great: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Efq55VCqE&feature=related > > best, > > Achim Breidenbach > Boinx Software > > On 17.05.2012, at 18:46, Patrick Sheffield wrote: > >> Quartz Composer uses the Graphics Card almost entirely, so benefits little >> from multiple cores. The advantage, of course, of a Mac Pro is that you can >> put an awesome graphics card in it... >> >> Patrick >> >> On May 16, 2012, at 11:39 PM, Mario Marquez wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone. >>> I am thinking on buying a 2.26ghz x2 quadr core (octo). This is the 2009 >>> mac pro. I am getting a good discount. So i am wondering if quartz composer >>> benefits from the eight cores. I have read that some apps don't use all the >>> cores. >>> I am looking to use it for live video performance with three monitors >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> >>> Mario >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >>> Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/psheffield%40earthlink.net >>> >>> This email sent to [email protected] >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/achim%40boinx.com >> >> This email sent to [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/gtoledo3%40gmail.com > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
